What are the downsides to using Windows through virtualbox?

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linux

Hello.
Such a question: is it a working option to have the main OS linux, but do most of the work in the virtualbox of the windows OS?
Need to work with Adobe package and some other only-windows software, but would like to have linux as the main system.
I understand that a lot depends on the power of the system. Here are the basic data of the system with which it is supposed to work: i5 7400, 16 gb RAM, HDD.

Answer 1

Many graphic packages from Adobe actively use a video card for computing
from virtual machines, more or less adequately emulates a video card, as far as I know, only VMWare . But it’s better to
do it this way: tench and under Windows) 3. configure so that when the PC starts, both are stratified 4. divide the RAM between them (the hypervisor itself will have enough 256-512MB, the rest between the virtual machines as needed) Forward the insert from i5 (after all the basic settings of the hypervisor and opening the ssh server in its VNet) 7. On Windows, we raise the VNC server and add it to startup
8. we turn on the monik on the embed, we control Windows via VNC

Answer 2

1 - virtualbox - the weakest (of the available desktop hypervisors, in terms of GPU usage)
2 - under Linux it's even sadder than host=windows+windows-under-virtualbox ( believe me - I spent a year and a half on games)))
3 - VMWare - noticeably better. .. but not free anymore (and the player is a voluntary castration... IMHO)
4 - host on Windows+Hyper-V=cool!!! and direct use of hard drives (ssd) ..)... but ... - (this is a fat minus) - figs throwing usb devices .. and so on trifles counter sadness is typed ((...
my conclusion - there is no ideal, it is necessary to look at the task. but according to your wording - see p1 (in the sense of your Wishlist - this is the worst solution)
.. if more tasks are solved in Windows - do not be cunning! - a host on Windows!... but Linux in virtualbox is very good!
ps I found peace in just such a combination - a Windows host, and a virtual box for guests, including Linux .. (all stripes ..
)))
https://i.imgur.com/KGLF4Io.jpg
pps - the answer is categorical on any hardware !!!
ppps .. although... you can repeat the search yourself))). good luck... at least for a year of searching ))

Answer 3

problems can be with software that GPU acceleration uses in any form
, otherwise there are practically no minuses

Answer 4

What are the downsides to using Windows through virtualbox?

All the standard disadvantages of virtualization - performance degradation, access to hardware through an extra layer of abstraction, problems with some peripherals, such as video.

is it a viable option to have the main OS linux, but do most of the work in virtualbox windows OS?

In the sense that it will work - of course a worker.
But the logic here is somehow sad - what's the point of keeping Windows in a virtual machine if you do most of the work in it? Isn't it easier to do the opposite?

Answer 5

There is only one minus - the lack of a video card :) The option "we take a cool car, set a Linux host, Windows as a guest and forward the video card to Windows so that it finds it with firewood and uses it" - it is possible, but only theoretically. There you need knowledge of linux at a level at which probably only the developers themselves know it. Or special luck with iron. I somehow tried. It was possible to throw the vidyuhi, but to put the firewood so that they found the vidyuhi - no.
If the main work is related to photoshop - virtualization will not help. It's the same with games. Virtualization (and then, not VBox, but KVM) to a certain extent solves the problem of Windows for admin tasks - Linux on one monitor, Windows on the second.

Answer 6

But the logic here is somehow sad - what's the point of keeping Windows in a virtual machine if you do most of the work in it? Isn't it easier to do the opposite?

The same thought came up.